MLB / Players

James Russell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornJanuary 8, 1986 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 5, 2010

Final gameApril 19, 2016

Seasons7 (2010–2016)

Chicago Cubs 2010–2013; Atlanta Braves 2014; Chicago Cubs 2014–2015; Philadelphia Phillies 2016

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.4

71.9

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2010	57	4	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.1	-100.0	.000	0.0
2011	64	8	8	1	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	-53.8	-31.2	.114	0.4
2012	77	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.0	-100.0	.000	1.3
2013	74	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2014	66	2	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.4	-100.0	.000	1.0
2015	49	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.5	-100.0	.000	-0.3
2016	7	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2010	57	0	1	1	0	55	27	11	42	11	49.0	4.96	1.347	7.71	5.23	126.1	83.6	0.0
2011	64	5	1	6	0	76	31	14	43	12	67.7	4.12	1.330	5.72	4.74	122.1	94.1	0.4
2012	77	0	7	1	2	67	25	23	55	5	69.3	3.25	1.298	7.14	3.53	87.7	123.9	1.3
2013	74	0	1	6	0	46	21	18	37	7	52.7	3.59	1.215	6.32	4.43	116.6	105.8	0.7
2014	66	1	0	2	1	45	19	20	42	3	57.7	2.97	1.127	6.55	3.41	93.3	123.0	1.0
2015	49	0	0	2	1	42	20	9	20	3	34.0	5.29	1.500	5.29	3.93	103.6	71.6	-0.3
2016	7	0	0	0	0	9	9	5	4	2	4.3	18.69	3.231	8.31	10.80	260.6	22.2	-0.7

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

394

RBI

.0625

OBP

.0625

SLG

.0625

OPS

.1250

Pitching

G (P)

394

SHO

335

SO (P)

243

BB allowed

100

ERA

4.088

WHIP

1.3147

K/9

6.53

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	H	TB
2011-05-02	CHC @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1
2010-04-05	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0
2010-04-11	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0
2010-04-12	MIL @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0
2010-04-14	MIL @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-04-26	COL @ CHC Gameday	4.0	5	4	4	3	4	3
2014-09-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	1	4	0
2011-05-02	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4.2	6	5	4	0	3	0
2010-07-30	CHC @ COL Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	3	0
2014-07-29	COL @ CHC Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	3	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.